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The Political Power of Platforms: How Current Attempts to Regulate Misinformation Amplify Opinion Power

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, July 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#27 of 919)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
102 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
reddit
4 Redditors

Citations

dimensions_citation
109 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
122 Mendeley
Title
The Political Power of Platforms: How Current Attempts to Regulate Misinformation Amplify Opinion Power
Published in
Digital Journalism, July 2020
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2020.1773888
Authors

Natali Helberger

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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 122 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 12%
Student > Master 13 11%
Lecturer 11 9%
Researcher 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 23 19%
Unknown 46 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 48 39%
Arts and Humanities 4 3%
Computer Science 4 3%
Linguistics 3 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 52 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 98. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 April 2023.
All research outputs
#431,258
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#27
of 919 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,466
of 430,478 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#2
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 919 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 430,478 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 28 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.